We explore the impact of the formation of regional free trade agreements on the ability of countries to maintain low cooperative multilateral tariffs. We assume that countries can not make binding int
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This package can be used to replicate the results found in the article "The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation" by Giovanni Facchini, Peri Silva, and Gerald